Nerds Online

I wanted to do something big for my 1-year anniversary, and boy was this night one of my favorites in a long time. Max Temkin and I got to carry on about our mutual love of the long-running young adult novel series Animorphs for an hour while getting laughs from a live audience and being flanked by some other incredible past guests along the way.

Dear friend Andy Herren swings by MBSing today to tell me a bunch of hilariously true stories about times he's [mostly innocently] lied to some unwitting victims. Buckle up and enjoy the ride, and look out for some sweet nods to his time on Big Brother 15 where he used his love of lying to win buckets of money.

The Nerdologues will travel across Chicago to destroy the greatest evil the city has ever known. With nothing but their lackluster skills and hearts to guide them, the Nerds will venture to stop the evil Wrigley Wraiths as they try to reach the "dragon".
Wrigleyville creeps ever further south as the wraiths attempt to reunite with the one being that will return the Cubs to their former glory, and the city to its former evil.

Susan Messing is an improv deity, and she was nice enough to come on the show and tackle some subjects she cannot stop reading about fueled by anger and curiosity. We focus more on the Scientology side of things than anything else, but the whole thing is fascinating and hilarious just like Susan.

It was one of the defining games of a generation - if you belonged to a super-specific generation of 1990s gamers - and now we're gonna talk about it. Don't jump out of your trolleys prematurely for this discussion of Donkey Kong Country.